Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most direct East-West confrontation occurred in isolated Berlin, when the Soviets suddenly shut down all roads, rails and waterways in an effort to starve the city into submission. The U.S. and Britain responded with an unprecedented airlift. Bright C-54s and battered C-47s touched down at West Berlin's Tempelhof Airport at a daytime rate of one every three minutes. At its peak, these allies ferried a record of 12,940 tons of fuel and food in one day during what they called "Operation Vittles." After ten months the Soviets opened the ground corridors to the West...
...other diaries cover equally unusual locales. Stalin's Russia. Hitler's Germany. Chamberlain's Britain. Daladier's France. And on into South America, India, African and Hawaii. Goodfriend has seen a lot of the world. During World War II he edited Stars and Stripes, the Army's newspaper; after the war, his work with the U.S. Information Agency and the Foreign Service took him on a grand tour of the globe. More than thirty books--not to mention the diaries--record his observations on the diverse cultures and tumultuous political climates in which he has lived...
...Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who retaliated harshly over the next four years. At the peak of the fighting, the Shah supplied helicopters and pilots to help 70,000 Pakistani soldiers put down the rebellion of 55,000 bearded, turbaned Muslim guerrillas, who were mostly armed with local versions of Britain's Edwardian-vintage Lee-Enfield rifle. Since then, the Baluch have been relatively quiet. But members of a Marxist Baluchistan People's Liberation Front have found sanctuary in Afghanistan, and resentment of Pakistan's unfulfilled promises of greater freedom lingers. So too does concern among some Western...
...price rise announced by the OPEC cartel will hurt almost all industrial nations. The extra costs will amount to about $6 billion for the U.S., some $2 billion for West Germany and roughly $1.5 billion each for France and Italy. With North Sea oil on stream, Britain should weather the increase without trouble...
Though the prospect is for "moderation" in wages, that may translate into less than moderate increases of 12% in Britain, 8% in France and possibly 15% in Italy. In West Germany, 100,000 steelworkers who demand a 35-hour instead of a 40-hour week have been on strike or locked out, some for as long as six weeks. This is the worst German steel confrontation in 50 years, and by mid-January it will slow auto and electronics production. So, while Europe heads into the new year with more vigor than the U.S., the year of the scissors will...